bialczabub

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by bialczabub 8mo ago
How do you "know" this? They're private and don't need to report anything. You also have to be careful about who said it and what they meant by "profit," because there is gross profit, EBIT, EBITDA, and others.
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by bialczabub 8mo ago
This is just what I was thinking. Twitter (X) owed $1.3B in debt every year in interest since Musk's takeover. This was before re-financing in a higher interest rate environment. The company was losing $200MM+ per year on ~$5B in reven
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by bialczabub 1y ago
Tobias J. Moskowitz, a UChicago Economist, and L. Jon Wertheim studied home field advantage across all sports years ago, and concluded referee bias was real and was the driving force behind home advantage. It's explained in the book &q
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by bialczabub 2y ago
It also doesn't include that a $1.8MM mortgage usually implies a $2.25MM house that you just put down $450k on. The median price of American homes is $400k. In California it's $860k. In the Bay Area it's $1.5MM. You can get a
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by bialczabub 3y ago
Do you have proof that they changed the recipe/process. My wife and I have long suspected this, but I believe officially they denied any change. The rebrand was an absolute disaster of marketing. You have a 125 year old brewery with an
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by bialczabub 4y ago
"Preponderance of evidence" here refers to a legal standard (i.e. was it more likely than not) rather than the criminal standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt" and not "most of the evidence." The prosecutors di
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by bialczabub 4y ago
This entire thing is a strawman argument. "'small “nudges', often the sorts of things that we might not think would affect us at all, can have big effects on behavior. Thus the claims that elections are decided by college foo
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by bialczabub 6y ago
In the US, any stock held past December 31 of the year in which it was obtained by exerciing an ISO (the most common kind of startup option) generates "income" according to the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). AMT is essentially a c
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by bialczabub 6y ago
This article ( https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/washington-... ) claims "about five" deaths from gunshot wounds to people who tested positive for COVID-19. That's of the 1,055 total th
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by bialczabub 13y ago
Stay out of Malibu, Lebovski!
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by bialczabub 14y ago
I really don't see Prop 30 as the entrepreneurship killer its critics make it out to be. Why does nobody point out that in the event of an exit, an entrepreneur has control over the timing of their income? Sure, I suppose some subset of peo